An XML Sitemap can Help your Search Engine Ranking
When a search engine spider (like Google-bot) crawls your website it starts at the
root web page and follows the URL links. The spider doesn't crawl your entire website
the first time it visits. It only checks a handful of links and makes a note to
return later.
Unfortunately for you and the search engine spider, it doesn't know how many unindexed
web pages remain on your website. It returns, checks a few more web pages, and then
leaves again to return later. The bulk of your website could remain unindexed
for some time.
Without an XML Sitemap
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With an XML Sitemap
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To a search engine, your website without an XML sitemap might look something like
this. Only a few web pages are indexed, while most remain unknown.
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A website with an XML sitemap quickly shows search engine spiders which web pages
exist, which web pages are important and which web pages have been updated.
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An XML sitemap changes all that! The sitemap allows you to provide
search engines with three important pieces of information:
- The web pages that make up your website
- Your most important web pages, even ones buried deep within your website
- Updated and new web pages since the last time the search engine spiders crawled
your website
Armed with this information from the XML sitemap, it now becomes possible to index
your website much more quickly and accurately. If many web pages have stayed the
same on your site, the search engine spiders don't need to waste time rechecking
old pages. With the help of the XML sitemap, the search engine spiders can skip
right to your new content and index it faster.
Inspyder Sitemap Creator is the easiest way to create an XML sitemap.
Whether you have 200 or 20,000 web pages it is easy to keep your XML sitemap up
to date. So what are you waiting for? Download a copy of Sitemap Creator today and
give your favorite search engine a helping hand!
